Metadata Common Vocabulary

SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines. Annex 4: Metadata Common Vocabulary (download_)

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The SDMX Metadata Common Vocabulary (2009) is a comprehensive, standardised glossary of the main concepts used in official statistics and SDMX-based data/metadata exchange. It consolidates and harmonises definitions from many international sources into a single reference, covering data and metadata structures, quality dimensions, sampling and estimation, classifications and coding, dissemination and confidentiality, time and units, organisational roles, and SDMX-specific artefacts. Intended as part of the SDMX Content-Oriented Guidelines, it gives statistical organisations a shared semantic layer for designing, documenting and exchanging data and metadata in a consistent and interoperable way.

The Metadata Common Vocabulary was replaced in February 2016 by the SDMX Glossary.